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<a name="getting_started"></a>Code examples</h2></div></div></div>
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<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="getting_started.html#initializing">Initializing</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="connections.html">Connecting</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="ch06s03.html">Executing queries</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="data-model.html">Managing data models</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="data-model.html#data-model-table-access">Example using random access</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="data-model.html#data-model-row-access">Example using an iterator</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="managing-errors.html">Managing connection's events and errors</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="main_example.html">Full example</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="ddl_example.html">DDL example</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="blobs_example.html">Binary large objects (BLOBs) example</a></span></dt>
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      First of all you have to initialise the gda library, i.e. to call the
      <a class="link" href="libgda-5.0-Libgda-Initialization.html#gda-init" title="gda_init ()">gda_init ()</a> function, for example:
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gda_init ();
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      After initializing you can work as usual or make <span class="application">Libgda</span> 
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<p>For example a basic program would look like:
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void
do_stuff () 
{
	GdaConnection *connection;
      
        /* open a connection */
	g_print ("CONNECTING\n");
	connection = gda_connection_open_from_dsn ("calvaris", NULL, 
                                                   GDA_CONNECTION_OPTIONS_READ_ONLY, NULL);
	g_print ("CONNECTED\n");
      
        /* use the connection */
	execute_some_queries (connection);
      
        /* close the connection */
        g_object_unref (G_OBJECT (connection));
}
      
      
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
	g_print ("STARTING\n");

	gda_init ();
      	do_stuff();

	g_print("ENDING\n");      
}
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